Example Sentences

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Frasers has built a reputation for swooping in to buy retail brands which have fallen into administration, but its gradual increase in ownership of profit-making Hugo Boss over several years is a different approach.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Pratt is portrayed as Batman in the video, swooping in to save the day.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

In the mornings, Christine eagerly awaits the brightly colored, highly vocal birds swooping into their garden, whooping their greetings before flying off into the junglelike foliage.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Come to think of it, thoughts are perhaps not unlike a murmuration of starlings, flitting and swooping and morphing with seemingly serendipitous activation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

There’s a stillness in the air—a kind of shadow swooping in on us in this little house of ours, leaking out from the walls.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender